Fresh Sauce
By Tina Pirruccio
Wash tomatoes [first, grow tomatoes. New England tomatoes are the best]
Boil water
Cover tomatoes with boiling water. Slash tomatoes.
Leave in about 10 min
Peel tomatoes
Cut tomatoes up in collander (chop tomatoes/ swish with hands) . Save juice (later for soup!)
Put tomatoes in a pot. Add salt, garlic, fresh basil, sugar. Cook until thick enough.
Note: if used for tomato sauce, add paste
If used for pizza, leave as is
If used for sauce with pasta (smooth sauce), put in blender
[Sunday afternoon dinner at Auntie Tina and Uncle George’s house was never served without pasta……with the exception of maybe one day……
Auntie was in the kitchen preparing the giant platter of pasta with sauce, getting just the right amounts (…..which for my dad meant swimming in sauce, with more sauce on the side!) The rest of us were seated around the table, with Uncle George at the head of the table. This, unfortunately, put his back to the kitchen, so he never saw what was heading his way…. I’m not sure what happened, but somehow on the trip from the kitchen to the table just a few steps away, Auntie lost her balance…and lost control of the platter. As if in a comedy, the platter flipped 180 degrees (that means upside down!) and landed with a direct hit on Uncle George’s head!
You know that really long pause when a little child is silent but is taking a giant breath, and you know the next sound will be a blood-curdling scream?????
Well, that long pause was a combination of all of us with our mouths gaping open, and Auntie Tina horrified by what just happened……and then came the scream…….Uncle George, reaching at least two octaves above his normal, quiet voice, screeched something indecipherable….. And that’s when the long, quiet pause of the rest of us, turned into uncontrollable burst of laughter!!
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